Improvement in rain-water cut-offs



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PATENT MATHIAS GMEINER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND HENRY PINS.

IMPROVEMENT IN RAIN-WATER CUT-OFFS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 162,053, dated April 13, 1875 application filed February 23, 1875.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, MATHIAS GMEINER, of St. Louis, in the county of St. Louis. and State of Missouri, have invented an Improved Rain- VVater Out-0 of which the following is a specification As is well known, the first fall of rain, ow ing to the deposits contained inthe troughs and spouts of buildings, becomes impure and untitfor cistern or household purposes. It is, therefore, necessary to allow said impure water to escape as waste; this done, to permit the pure water to be conducted to till the cistern, ctc.

My invention relates, therefore, to an improved construction of this class of cut-offs, and as will now more fully appear.

Of the drawing, Figure l isa side elevation. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation; Fig. 3, also a sectional elevation, showing the position of the cut-off acting as a waste.

A is the spout, communicating to the cistern or the like. In the spout A I form an enlarged opening, a, which is of the constructive shape indicated in Fig. l. It is through this opening that the water is directed to the waste or gut-ter by means of my improved cut-off, constructed as follows: B is the discharge snout or trough. This is 0i' such a constructive shape as to form a discharge-gutter, presenting the upper and lower curved outlines b b1. (See figures.) The discharge-trough B is to control the face-opening c in the spout by closing or opening same; hence, I insert in the spout A the trough B, so that its lower edge b1 shall project inside, and its upper edge b shall project outside, the spout A, and as shown in Figs. l and 2. In this position the trough B is riveted to the spout at both sides, (see b2 in v the gures,) and made capable of being drawn out or closed in the spout. The cut-olf further consists ofa top slide, C. This consists simply of a bent piece of spouting, its upper and lower edges c c1 being curved, as indicated in Figs. 2 and 3. It is also inserted in the spout A in line with its face-opening, so as to control the upper part of same.; hence, the upper edge c of the slide O I arrange to project and slide in the space c2 formed by the annular inner spouting c3 within the spout A. (See Figs. 2 and 3.) Its lower edge I rivet, both sides at c4, to the discharge-trough B, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The ltop slide O anddischarge-trough B thus pivoted together operate conjointly to open and close the face-opening of the spout. Fig. 2 shows the position of these parts when closed, and Fig. 3 when the cut-oft' is open. s

Assuming the position ot' the parts to be as shown in Fig. 3, it will be perceived that the trough B rests upon the bearing-edge of the.

opening in the spout A. Further, that the lower edge b of the trough B completely closes the spout A by forming a joint with the lower edge of the inner spouting c3. (See Fig. 3.) Whatever water passes down the spout A, therefore, falls upon the trough B and discharges out of same. At the same time the position of the top slide O, in Fig. 3, acts to direct the falling water into the middle of the trough B, and this it does, as is apparent, in such wise as to prevent overflow. The falling Water passing through the spout A, when the cut-off is in above-stated position, passes out to the gutter or waste. After the impure water has been thus permitted to Waste the operator closes the cut-off, and in doing so the parts assume the positions in Fig. 2. In the act of closing the trough B it actuates the slide O at first to move sufficiently inward, and is next drawn in vertical line by the coniplete closure of said trough b. The interior of the spout A is thus left open or free to allow the falling water to pass through the spout A, and to be conducted to the cistern.

What I claim is- 1. A rain-water cut-off, being a dischargetrough, B, and top slide O arranged to operate in a spout, in the manner herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. The. discharge-trough B, top slide O, pivo'ted with relation to each other, as herein shown and described, in combination with a spout, A, having face-opening t and inner spouting c3, to operate as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony of said invention, I have hereunto set my hand.

MATHIAS GMEINER.

Iitnesses WILLIAM W. HERTHEL, Guns. F. MEIsNER. 

